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BING CROSBY

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Harry Lillis â€œBingâ€ Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an United States|American popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977.

One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses.<ref name="giddens">{{cite book |last=Giddins |first=Gary |title = A Pocketful of Dreams |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |date=2001 |pages=727 |id=ISBN 0-316-88188-0</ref> He is cited among the most popular musical acts in history and is currently the most electronically recorded human voice in history.<ref>{{cite web |last=Givens |first=David B. |title=Center for Nonverbal Studies |url=http://members.aol.com/doder1/speech1.htm |accessdate=2006-29-12</ref> Crosby is also credited as being the major inspiration for most of the male singers of the era that followed him, including Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Dean Martin.{{Fact|date=March 2008 ''Yank, the Army Weekly|Yank'' magazine recognized Crosby as the person who had done the most for United States|American GI (military)|G.I. morale during World War II and, during his peak years, around 1948, polls declared him the "most admired man alive," ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII.<ref name="giddens"/><ref name... read all